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Russian Tea Cakes
Shortbread-like cookies filled with nuts and coated with sweet confectioners’ sugar, these delicious Russian Tea Cakes make an appearance at our house during the holiday season. These cookies are also known as Russian Snowballs. It is believed that these cookies originated in Lithuania. The difference between Russian Tea Cakes and Mexican Wedding Cakes is that Mexican Wedding Cakes contain cinnamon.
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Shrimp Scampi
Shrimp scampi is an Italian-restaurant favorite made right in a skillet. Serve these succulent shrimp over a bed of hot fettuccine or angel hair pasta and sprinkle with Parmesan cheese, if desired. Shrimp are sold according to the number of shrimp per pound. A good size shrimp for scampi is 20 to 25 per pound. Very large shrimp tend to be tough and less flavorful. Frozen shrimp should be thawed slowly in the refrigerator just before cooking.
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No Bake Pineapple Cheesecake Pie
No Bake Pineapple Cheesecake Pie is a simply delicious very old recipe. Since you don’t have to heat up the kitchen, bring it to the table often in the summertime.
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Traditional Tamales
This is my own personal recipe, developed over the years. This makes a huge batch, enough to eat and plenty for freezing for another day. The chiles are the large dried ones that you see hanging outside doors or under ramadas (ristras) in the Southwest and can be purchased at any grocery store by the bagful (usually in the Mexican spice section) in the Southwest or packaged in the ethnic foods section of many grocery stores elsewhere. Masa can be purchased at any tortilla factory or grocery store in the Southwest or in the refrigerated section of the grocery store in many other areas of the country. If using Maseca instead of fresh masa, a 4.4 pound bag of…
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L. A. Sweet Cornbread
This sweet, cake-like corn bread is served at family restaurants in Los Angeles. I’m not one for regular cornbread. I need my cornbread enhanced with sweetness, and this fits the bill perfectly!
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Corned Beef and Cabbage
A slow cooker is an absolutely wonderful and foolproof way to cook your Corned Beef and Cabbage. The perfect corned beef will slice very easily, but it will not be cooked to the point of falling apart. About corned beef… A Saint Patrick’s Day dish? Corned Beef is widely associated with St. Patrick’s Day in Ireland. The Irish, however, generally cook lamb on St. Patrick’s Day. But go to a large city, such as Chicago, and corned beef sandwiches are served in many taverns on St. Patrick’s Day. Chicagoans are quite enthusiastic about this holiday, even dyeing the Chicago River green about a week ahead of time. It’s quite spectacular! What is corned beef? It has nothing to do…
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Italian Beef
This makes delicious roast beef sandwiches in your slow cooker.
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Fattigman
This is a crisp Norwegian cookie. This recipe belonged to my step-Dad, Leo, a Norwegian, born and raised in Winona, Minnesota. We made this together at Christmas-time.
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Shrimp Cakes
Crisp and tender shrimp cakes. Serve with horseradish sauce, if desired.
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Fry Bread
This bread is used as the basis for Navajo Tacos and can also be folded over a stuffing and eaten as a sandwich. At special events through the Southwest they are cooked by Native Americans in large round pots over open mesquite fires. It seems like time is always of the essence, so if you would like to speed things up, just use well drained pinto beans or black beans instead of the Beans from the Pot (Frijoles de Olla). You can use regular taco-seasoned ground beef for this recipe instead of using the recipe provided. Leftover beef taco filling is great to use also. You can top these any way you desire. The sky is the limit.
